The conservative group Ending Spending may have premiered the ad that nationalizes the 2014 midterm elections around Obamacare.

The 30-second killer ad was produced by Republican media consultant Larry McCarthy and goes after Jeanne Shaheen, the first-term Democratic Senator from New Hampshire who is likely to face former GOP Senator Scott Brown next year.

The ad begins with footage of Shaheen on the Senate floor echoing President Obama by saying, if you like your insurance you can keep it. An overlay graphic points out that Obama was given the Lie of the Year award from a fact-checking group for that whopper.

The ad then shifts to a local focus: It notes 20,000 people in New Hampshire have lost their insurance to date and that Obamacare exchanges offer only a single provider on the states individual market.

The ad ends with a zinger sign-off: Next November, if you like your senator, you can keep her. If not, you know what to do.

Its a very powerful ad indeed, Grace Marie Turner, the head of the Galen Institute, a health-care advocacy group, told me.

Chris Cillizza, the Washington Posts top political blogger, says Obamacares growing unpopularity makes the ads message dangerous for any Democrat. The latest ABC News poll shows 70 percent of independents oppose Obama on health care. Nearly half of all voters think Obamacare is making the health-care system worse versus only 19 percent who think it will improve matters. Cillizzas conclusion: You have a very scary situation for Shaheen  and any other Democrat, which is almost all of them, on the record supporting the ACA. Get used to this ad. You are going to see it thousands of times  in various forms  before 2014 is over.

“.................Americans already know that ObamaCare means higher premiums and a shrinking roster of doctors. But they have not yet realized that ObamaCare plans are not portable and will impede their ability to travel.

What happens to those plans to send the kids to live with the grandparents for the summer, when little Josh needs to keep up with his allergy shots? What decision will a family make when Dad needs to move to start his new job, while the kids stay behind to finish up the school year? What kind of financial pain will be inflicted on American contract workers, who rent a hotel residence for three months while they complete a project? And who will buy a vacation home when the costs include out-of-pocket medical expenses?

Moreover, ObamaCare may soon start impacting access to emergency room care. With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?

“I have 35 years in the industry, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” the New York insurance broker told me. “ObamaCare is a rolling disaster. Every time we go down the road, we get hit with another catastrophe.”

“Im confident that the GOP-e will find a way to lose this golden opportunity.”

This election has them scared to death. If it’s a wave election and a bunch of conservatives are swept into office on the wave, the old line GOP will have to change. That’s why Rove et al are waging war on the Tea Party instead of Democrats this year. They regard it as an existential battle; so it will be a bloodfest.

I already saw Rove on Fox this month saying people “don’t want to hear” Republicans bashing Obamacare, they want to hear about whatever plan Republicans will replace it with. Yeah, I’m sure the public has a great appetite to hear more promises from politicians about how they can improve health care.

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posted on 12/18/2013 11:53:33 AM PST
by JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)

Scott Brown is a carpetbagger RINO from MA. He could not beat Warren who lives the dream from the hippie years.
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True story dating back to 1974, when I first went off to college. I knew I was conservative, but wasn't sure if I was a Democrat or Republican because the lines were still somewhat blurred. I went to Young Democrats and found all the females to be either perpetually angry or ugly. Then I went to College Republicans and found them to be sweet, attractive and mostly feminine. So guess which club I joined?

The National CR showed us some killer ads that year. Actors were playing the part of prominent liberals reciting the lines we knew they all believed, if didn't actually say. They even had one with a Ted Kennedy lookalike driving a car over a bridge.

These were outrageously funny ads, with a very serious message. They might even had been seriously effective.

But we never found out. The national GOP decided it would have been too divisive to air them. So they settled for a mid-term shellacking instead.

Then millions of Indochinese died as a result.

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posted on 12/18/2013 12:41:04 PM PST
by Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)

Massachusetts has sent us Scott Brown to take her place. A RINO. Once more media including Howie Carr on Boston radio has endorsed him. I will not vote again if they let the media choose the candidate for me .

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posted on 12/18/2013 12:50:54 PM PST
by lucky american
(The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)

I was visiting my dentist yesterday and heard another patient lining up work that she intended to spread out much later. She was afraid her dental insurance was going to get trimmed. Even tho that’s not a direck part of Kenyancare. The receptionist told me she’s getting a lot of that now.

“-—the old GOP line will have to change.” Yup, that’s where I am. I send money only to those who swear to God himself that they will vote against new spending, bigger spending, new programs, Kenyancare, etc. We have to primary out the people who got us into this mess either by supporting it or sitting on their hands and watching it happen. The Republican party is our only real hope but it must be HOUSE-CLEANED and re-filled with actual Goldwater/Reagan conservatives. What I call DEAD CENTER conservatives. My only gripe with Goldwater is that he claimed the RIGHT for CONSERVATISM-—should have been the CENTER.

They already found it here in NH: the Republican Party is trying to foist RINO, CARPET BAGGER, Scott (Stab the Tea Party, and all of the conservatives who put me into power in the back) Brown as running as the Republican candidate against Sheheen!

We have lived in NH for many, many years and there is no way in blazes that Scott Brown, the man who hates conservatives and the Tea Party as proven by his voting record, his actions and statements will EVER get our vote... NEVER.

So while what the ad says is true, there is no way we are voting for the Republican version of Obama lite.

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posted on 12/18/2013 7:41:05 PM PST
by Jmouse007
(Deliver us from this evil, in Jesus name, amen.)

Five or 10 years ago, I would have laughed at your comment and applauded your good humor. Now your comment is plausible, if not spot on. It makes me shudder to think the behavior of Republicans make your comment ring true.

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